Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 05 — Section 1290

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 5

[2011] The following passage is anti-Calvinistic. Gregory here, as continually elsewhere, asserts the freedom of the will; and is strongly supported by Justin Martyr, i. 43: "If it has been fixed by fate that one man shall be good, and another bad, the one is not praiseworthy, the other not culpable. And again, if mankind has not power by a free choice to flee the evil and to choose the good, it is not responsible for any results, however shocking." __________________________________________________________________

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